קָצַב
qâtsab · H7094 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to cut off
Causative action by which humans remove part of an object with a sharp tool
Examples2 Kings 6:6 Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” And when he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there, and made the iron float.
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to cut off from, to strip, to shear
Causative action by which humans remove from an object something that covers it, using a sharp tool
ExamplesSong of Solomon 4:2 “Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep Which have come up from their watering place, All of which bear twins, And not one among them has lost her young.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵץtree, wood 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 3 groups
- עָלָהto go up 1
- תָּאַםto bear twins 1
- הֶםthem 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵדֶרflock 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- קָצָה qâtsâh · H7096 · to cut off, to sever, to strip
- The target lexeme (cut down, shorn) and קָצָה (cut off, cut short, scrape off) both denote cutting or detaching actions, functioning as near-synonyms describing similar physical separation.
- עָקַר ʻâqar · H6131 · to uproot, to be uprooted, to be destroyed
- Both lexemes describe removal/detachment actions with cutting or uprooting semantics, making them plausible near-synonyms in contexts of severing or removing something. However, עָקַר (ʻâqar, H6131)'s broader range (digging, houghing, rooting) versus קָצַב (qâtsab, H7094)'s narrower "cut down, shorn" suggests partial rather than full overlap—they are real but not identical synonyms.
- גַּזָז gazâz · H1494 · to shear, to shave, to cut off
- Both words denote cutting or shearing actions. גַּזָז (gazâz, H1494) has a broader application (shearing sheep, shaving, polling, cutting off), while קָצַב (qâtsab, H7094) is more restricted, occurring only twice and meaning "cut down" or "shorn."
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Detach002003001006
- The word means to cut off, directly illustrated by Elisha cutting off a stick to make the axe head float (2 Kings 6:6) and the bride's teeth compared to a flock of newly shorn sheep (Song of Solomon 4:2).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7094. qatsab [קָצַב] verb cut off, shear (?) (Late Hebrew קָצַב decide, determine, Pi`el…
[קָצַב] verb cut off, shear (?) (Late Hebrew קָצַב decide, determine,
Pi`el chop meat; Palmyrene קצבא butcher, so Syriac , Jewish-Aramaic קַצָּכָא, and Arabic as loan-word Frä258; Arabic also is cut off a branch); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִקְצָכעֵץֿ 2Ki 6:6 he cut off a stick; Passive participle feminine plural הַקְּצוּבוֺת עֵדֶר Son 4:2 a flock of (sheep) that are shorn (?).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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